Emanuel Swedenborg - Heaven Quotes

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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

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In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.

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In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

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For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

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The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

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First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

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And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

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Since the Bible is a divine revelation, every single part of it is divine. Anything that comes from the divine could be no other way. Everything that comes from the divine goes down through the heavens all the way to people on earth. In heaven it is adapted to the wisdom of the angels there, and on earth it is adapted to the understanding of the people there. So the Bible has an inner, spiritual meaning for angels and an outer, material-level meaning for people on earth. That is why our connection to heaven happens through the Bible.

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It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

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That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

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All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

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The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

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This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love

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[There are] many earths, inhabited by man... thousands, yea, ten thousands of earths, all full of inhabitants not only in this solar system, but also beyond it, in the starry heaven.

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